Felix Pedro monument located along the Steese Highway near the site of his discovery claim.

Felix Pedro (who's birth name was Felice Pedroni) was born on April 16, 1858 in Fanano, Italy. Little is known about Felix's early life, but by the early 1890s, he was pursuing gold in the Klondike and interior of Alaska.

Many of the men in the prospecting company that Felix partnered with were veterans of the Western gold rushes including the California Gold Rush. Since most of them were used to hispanic names, Felice Pedroni soon became Felix Pedro, a name that stuck.

After nearly a decade of searching for gold, Felix Pedro made his discovery on July 22, 1902 on a creek his friends named after him near the city he helped found, Fairbanks, Alaska. What speaks to his character is the fact that he did not stake his claim which he knew would attract other prospectors once recorded. Instead, he sought out his partners and friends, many of which had already given up for the season, to join him in staking claims together.